Sergio Campisi

Sergio Campisi is a Partner at VE Partners, an Amsterdam-based private equity firm founded in 1999 that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams across the Benelux. He has been with the firm since November 2010, rising to Partner, and brings roughly two decades of experience across investment management, strategy consulting, and M&A advisory.

Before joining VE Partners, Campisi spent about six years (2004–2010) as a strategy consultant at Booz & Company (now Strategy&/PwC), advising corporate clients on strategic and operational challenges — experience that maps closely to VE Partners' hands-on, operationally-involved investment style, which grew out of ex-strategy consultants partnering with management teams to resolve complex and distressed situations. Earlier in his career he worked as a corporate finance analyst at Amsterdam merchant bank Kempen & Co (2003–2004).

On the education side, Campisi holds an MBA from IESE Business School (2007–2009), an MSc in Business Administration from Maastricht University, and a Master of Science in International Business from Università Bocconi in Milan. He is based in Amsterdam.

At VE Partners, Campisi sits among a small partner group (alongside partners including Bjørn van Knippenberg, Bob de Lange, Chris de Weers, and Lennert Spek), backed by a team of investment directors, managers, and analysts. The firm was ranked among the top-three most active private equity firms in the Netherlands in 2023.

• Stage & structure: Majority equity investments in established, mid-market businesses — management buyouts, carve-outs, buy-and-build platforms, and turnaround/complex situations. This is a control-oriented PE mandate, not seed/angel checks.
• Ticket & size: Roughly €5–40M of equity per deal into companies with ~€20–300M in revenue.
• Geography: Benelux-centric, extending into Western Europe.
• Sectors: Broad and opportunistic — industrials/manufacturing, health & fitness, hospitality/horeca, construction & finishing, consumer/lifestyle, food, and business services; the firm cites growth tailwinds such as decarbonization and green technologies.
• What makes them say yes: Strong alignment with the management team and a business where VE Partners' hands-on operational and strategic support can create value. In the firm's words: *"Entrepreneurship is a continuous challenge. At VE Partners, we have gained the experience to guide entrepreneurs throughout their journey."*